Cigar-cutter.



E. L. ANDERSON.

CIGAR CUTTER.

APPLICATION HLED APR-17. 1915.

1 166,881 Patented Jan. 4, 1916.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co., WASHINGTON, u c.

' housing.

EDWARD L. ANDERSON, or .ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS;

CIGAR-CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 17, 1915. Serial No. 22,065.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD L. ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Attleboro, in the county of Bristol and btate ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement inCigar-Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in cigarcutters and the primary object of the present invention is to provide astructure in which the parts can be completely finished and subsequentlyassembled after finishing.

A further object 01 the invention is to provide a cigar cutter in whichthe parts can'be stamped from sheet metal and in which the same can beassembled without the use of any tools whatsoever, or in other words bymere use of the hands.

A stillfurther object'of the invention is to provide a cigar cutterwhich involves in its entirety but three parts, thus enabling economicalproduction and assemblage.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a side edgeelevation. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is asection on'the line 4.4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5-5of Fig. 3.

In proceeding in accordance with the present invention a hollow housing1 is employed which may be formed of a single plate of metal bent intothe form shown in the drawings to provide a substantially rectangularinterior contour, provided with the usual cigar tip receivlng openings.

The invention further embodies a member 3 having a finger receivingopening t and provided with passed through the housing 1 and the extent,of movement of which is restricted by the provision of shoulders 6which abut the adjacent end of housing 1. The legs 5 are furtherprovided with outward projections 7 which after the legs 5 have beenpassed through the housing, spring outwardly and engage the opposite endofthe housing to hold the member 3 rigid, relative to the The inner sideedges of the legs 5 are provided with stops 8 for a purpose now to bedescribed.

A movable or slidable member 9 has a finger receiving opening 10 and isprovided with a cutter blade 11 formed integral therewith and adapted totraverse the apertures 2 and is also provided with opposite longithehousing being legs 5 that are adapted to be ing, a cutter,

tudinal extending fingers -12 which terminate in outward projections 13adapted to engage the stop shoulders 8 so as to thereby restrict theextent of outward movement of member 9.

In assemblage, member 3 first has its legs 5 contracted and the latterthen passed through the housing whereupon projections 7 will springoutwardly and engage the adjacent end of the housing thereby rigidlysecuring the member Sin the housing. The member9 then has its fingers 12contracted and passedthrough the last named end of the housing and movedinto the latter so as to'enable the projections 130i fingers 12 to snapover the stop shoulders 8 whereby the parts are assembledwithout the useof any tools of any character or by mere use of the hands. The metalemployed obviously must be possessed "of slight spring properties sothat'the legs and fingers will move out- Patented Jan. 4, 1916.3

movement of the cutter member. It will thus be seen that the parts areautomatically locked to the housing, one rigidly so and theother (theone having the cutter) movably connected.

Havlng thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to'secure by Letters Patent llA'cigar cuttercomposed of a hollow housing having open ends and cigar tip receivingapertures, a member having a finger receiving opening and legs withshoulders at the inner ends of the legs, the legs being received in thehousing and the shoulders abutting oneend of the latter, the free endsof the legs having outward Y projections adapted to spring outwardly andengage the opposite end of the housing, said legs having 7 stopshoulders on their side edges, and a second member having a fingerreceiving open- 7 and fingers on opposite sides of the cutter spacedtherefrom, said fingers riding on the inner side edges of the legs andhaving outward projections which are adapted to engage the stopshoulders to limit the extent of outward movement of the last namedmember.

2. In a cigar cutter, a hollow housing having cigar tip receivingopenings, a pair of finger engaging members, means to automatically andrigidly lock one of the members to the housing upon insertion into thelatter, and means to automatically and movably connect the other memberto the first named memberso as to allow same to have restricted slidingmovement upon insertion into the housing.

In a cigar cutter, a hollow housing, a finger engaging member havingspring means which upon insertion in thehousing is automatically lockedthereto and a cutter bearing member having spring means to'automatioallylock the same within the housing upon insertion in the latter but toallow same to have a restricted sliding movement.

4. A cigar cutter composed of a housing and two finger engaging membersone of which has a cutter, and means to automatically connect both ofthe-members relative to the housing upon insertion in the latter and toallow the cutter bearing member to have restricted sliding movement whenin the housing.

5. A cigar cutter composed of a housing, a finger engaging member havingmeans which upon insertion in the housing is automatically lockedthereto and a second finger engaging element having means associatedWith the first named element restricting the sliding movement of thesecond element. 6. In a cigar cutter, a housing, a finger engagingelement having spring legs and projections on the legs whereby the legsmay be inserted in the housing from one end thereof to enable theprojections to spring out and engage the opposite end of the housing,shoulders on the legs and a cutter.

member having spring fingers with projections which fingers uponcompression may be placed in the last named end of the housing and thensprung out to engage the shoulders to limit the sliding movement of thecutter.

7. A cigar cutter in which the parts are automatically locked inassemblage by mere relative movement between the parts, in-

thereto and a cutter associated with said element.

9. In a cigar cutter, a housing, a finger engaging element insertible inthe housing from one end thereof, means to automatically lock saidelement to the housing upon insertion in the latter, a cutter memberinsertible in the opposite end of the housing, and means to positivelyand automatically connect the member relative to the housing but toallow sliding movement of said member upon its insertion in the housing.f 10. A cigar cutter including a housing, a finger engaging element, acutter, and means whereby upon the element being positioned so as toenter the housing and upon relative movement between the element andhousin the element will be automatically locked to the housing.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWVARD L. ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

ADA E. HAGERTY, J A. MILLER.

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